title: Primary parafalcine chondrosarcoma in a child.
abstract: Intracranial cartilaginous tumors are rare lesions, usually arising from the skull base in older individuals. We report the case of a 12-year-old girl with a low-grade type chondrosarcoma arising from the falx cerebri. To our knowledge this is the first such case reported in a child. She was treated with gross total surgical resection followed by external beam radiation because there was evidence of dural infiltration by tumor in and around the superior sagittal sinus. The patient remains progression free 9 months after surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Gerszten
authors.forename: I F
authors.initials: IF
authors.lastname: Pollack
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009418:S100 Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D009418:S100 Proteins